Civil rights movement

=== Jewish support for the movement ===
Jewish Americans played an active role supporting the Civil Rights Movement and were actively involved in establishing and supporting a number of the most important civil rights organizations, including the NAACP, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). These organizations played pivotal roles in the civil rights movement, advocating for racial equality and justice.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Brief History of Jews and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s {{!}} Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism |url=https://rac.org/issues/civil-rights-voting-rights/brief-history-jews-and-civil-rights-movement-1960s |access-date=2023-12-14 |website=rac.org |language=en}}</ref>

Despite representing less than 2% of the US population, Jews made up roughly half of all civil rights lawyers in the South during the 1960s and half of the white northern volunteers involved in the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer project.<ref>{{Cite web |title=American Jews and the Civil Rights Movement |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/american-jews-and-the-civil-rights-movement |access-date=2023-12-14 |website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}</ref>